Using News Feeds
News feeds are a technology that enables you to automatically collect headlines and summaries from your favorite web publications and view them in a single application for quicker, easier reading than going to each site one-by-one. If a website has a feed, then with the proper software, you can subscribe to it. RSS is the most prominent format for feeds. To learn more, see Paul Boutin's article about RSS on Slate.
To get The View's RSS feed, you'll need an application called a newsreader (also called news aggregators and feedreaders). Whatever application you use, you'll need to give it the address of The View's feed, http://www.viewfromtheground.com/feed/.
Many web services now integrate feeds into user's home pages:
We suggest the following newsreaders:
- FeedReader is a free/open source newsreader application for Windows.
- Safari on Mac OS X has powerful integrated newreading features.
- Mozilla Firefox is an excellent web browser available for Windows, Mac, and Linux with built-in feed support. Feeds can be accessed via Firefox's Live Bookmark feature, with limited functionality compared to a full-blown newsreader.
Last updated July 4th, 2005